GOP voters voting against own interests

2:23 PM,
Jul. 5, 2013

Written by

Susan Stone, Black Mountain

If you are voting Republican you are voting against your own interests. Since taking over, North Carolina Republicans have passed or introduced legislation that would: eliminate the earned income tax credit for 900,000 people; decline Medicaid coverage for 500,000 and privatize public healthcare in the state; end unemployment benefits for 165,000 in a state with the country's fifth-highest unemployment rate; cut pre-K for 30,000 kids while shifting $90 million from public education to voucher schools; cut taxes for the top 5 percent while raising taxes on the bottom 95 percent; allow ...